ITALY - Rome THE EARTHQUAKE DISASTER

The quake, centered near L'Aquila about 70 miles northeast of Rome, struck at 3:32 a.m. Monday, followed by a series of aftershocks that continued into Tuesday morning.

Under an apocalyptic scenary , Italy has been devasted with an earthquake which has epicentro in Rome, the worst one in 30 years, thousands of militars , firefighters and red cross working on and helping to people till yesterday there were 150 deaths , many of them children, 250 dissapeared , 1500 injured and 100.000 evacuated .All is in a shadow like the end of the world.

The central Piazza d´il Duomo , the Top of the Church Santa Maria del Sufragio is destroyed, this sismo maledetto , as it is called also destroyed 25 towns , it happened 3.30 am an earthquake of 6.3 degrees in Richter scale during 30 seconds

The violence of this earthquake could be heard in the cities of Rome and Napoles .It is the worst tragedy of the milenium begining , Guido Bertolaso , chief of Civil Defense, said and rescued more than 100.000 people

It is Italy's deadliest quake in nearly three decades. Ambulances screamed through L'Aquila as firefighters with dogs and a crane worked feverishly to reach people trapped in fallen buildings, including a university dormitory where half a dozen students were believed still inside.

This earthquake was warned by a scientist Gaimpaolo Giuliani who developed a system for preventing the earthquakes, but he was not considered accused as being alarmist .

Silvio Berlusconi suspended his travel to Moscu and went to the zone afectated and he said nobody will be alone. Messages of soladirity came from over the world . It was approved a package of 30 million of euros for helping this catastrophe

Premier Silvio Berlusconi declared a state of emergency, he said nobody will be alone freeing up federal funds to deal with the disasterIt was approved a package of 30 million of euros for it and canceled a visit to Russia so he could deal with the crisis.

Condolences poured in from around the world, including from President Barack Obama, Pope Benedict XVI and Abdullah Gul, president of quake-prone Turkey
Residents and rescue workers hauled away debris from collapsed buildings by hand or in an assembly lines, passing buckets. Firefighters pulled a woman covered in dust from the debris of her four-story home. Rescue crews demanded quiet as they listened for signs of life from other people believed still trapped inside.

The quake hit on Rome city of 70 000 people and Santo Stefano di Sessabui m Castekveccgui Calvisui,San Pio, Villa Santo Angelo, Fossa, Ocre, San Demetrio and the Altiplano de las Rocas center. Rhe most dramatic situations were in the historic center of the city and the towns Onna and Paganica.

A new shakes of 4.8 degrees has happened this morning.

Since January has been heard soft shakes and there were an alert , but never imagine that this kind of dissaster could happen.
The Via XX Settembre was one of the more damaged , Hotel Duca D´Abruzzo was totally destroyed , and the University with 27. 000 students was devastated.
L'Aquila, capital of the Abruzzo region, was near the epicenter about 70 miles (110 kilometers) northeast of Rome. It is a quake-prone region that has had at least nine smaller jolts since the beginning of April. The quake struck at 3:32 a.m. The U.S. Geological Survey said the big quake was magnitude 6.3, but Italy's National Institute of Geophysics put it at 5.8 and more than a dozen aftershocks followed.

Many testimonies , of children , babies , mother dead embracing her kid, students deaths , old people that couldnt move , it is a big sadness and impotence that this dissasters cant have a rational explanation at all , and we hope all people that was damaged and lost everything could get all in return but nothing will be the same after this in Italy .

This was Italy's deadliest quake since Nov. 23, 1980, when one measuring 6.9-magnitude hit southern regions, leveling villages and causing some 3,000 deaths.
Many modern structures in Italy over recent decades have failed to hold up to the rigors of quakes along Italy's mountainous spine, or in coastal cities like Naples.
Despite warnings by geologists and architects, some of these buildings have not been retrofitted for seismic safety.
Pezzopane, the provincial president, said residents may have been lulled into complacency because so many smaller quakes had jolted the area, including two or three earlier in the night.

"Considering what happened, a bit more concern, more attention might have saved lives," she said. National officials insisted no quake can ever be predicted and that no evacuation could have been ordered on the basis of the recent jolts.
"There is no possibility of making any predictions on earthquakes. This is a fact in the world's scientific community," Civil protection chief Guido Bertolaso told reporters.

The last major quake to hit central Italy was a 5.4-magnitude temblor that struck the south-central Molise region on Oct. 31, 2002, killing 28 people, including 27 children who died when their school collapsed

Praying for the non stop of rescue more people and hoping that this earthquake stops .For all the lives lost , and people injured, damages that cant be even be counted and payed back , All the solidarity of the world is with them .